Clorox Disinfecting Wipes are the only approved material for cleaning our beautiful pews. The parish supply is running out and we are unable to purchase them in bulk supply. But individual parishioners can buy small quantities. Please help! Please purchase the wipes at local stores (Costco, Giant, Safeway, 7-11, Walgreens) and donate them to the parish. Please bring them to the Cry Room in the church. Thank you! See you at Mass soon!
Bread/bakery goods collection and distribution from area bakery sources. Baked goods are distributed to shelters and food pantries that serve the needy along the Route 1 corridor.
Contact: Jim McCracken
jimmc@nova.org
703-960-4546
Christ House provides food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, and clothing for those in need. Christ House helps individuals recognize their abilities, develop self-sufficiency, and maintain their self-respect. It offers limited assistance to individuals needing help to pay their rent, utility bills, prescription bills, and other expenses.
St. Louis Church provides the evening meal every fourth Friday of the month. Volunteers provide casseroles, salads, bread, desserts and their time to support this ministry. We send out a reminder around the third Friday of the month with a signupgenius link for people to sign up to help.
Christ House is located at 131 S. West Street in Old Town Alexandria.
Contact: Eva Shufflebarger
eva.shuffle@gmail.com
We promote Perpetual Adoration and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Members read entries from the Diary of St. Faustina, the Bible, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. We practice corporal and spiritual works of mercy and are expanding our mission to going to homes and praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for the sick and dying. Please reach out to us if you wish several members in the Cenacle to visit and pray with you. The cenacle meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 9:45am.
Contact: Fran Raven
Fraven1@verizon.net
703-768-5295
Contact: Marita McCollum
703-768-3967
The Bereavement Committee is a group of parishioners who, when requested prepare a luncheon after a funeral for the family and friends of the deceased.
Our volunteers help set up, serve, and clean up after the luncheon. We serve sandwiches, salads, desserts and drinks. All the food is donated by the parishioners. Working on this committee involves a minimal time commitment. Volunteers are called on an as-needed basis. We rotate our volunteers at receptions and for donating food.
Volunteers are needed to be a hostess, to donate food, make phone calls, set-up, serve or clean-up at receptions. For more information contact the parish office.
Contact: Kathy McCabe
mccabeka@cox.net
Contact: Theresa Miller
johnnteresa@me.com
The Gabriel Project is a ministry that helps pregnant women (single and married) and their families in need of assistance at the parish level. This ministry includes collecting and delivering baby items, providing transportation to and from doctor appointments, meal preparation, and offering prayers during adoration or at home.
Contact: Alexandra Butron
alexandrabutron@gmail.com
703-401-3877
The Legion of Mary s the largest lay apostolic organization in the Catholic Church with 7 million active members and 20 million auxiliary (praying) members worldwide. The weekly meeting of the Legion includes praying the Rosary, spiritual reading and discussion, reports on apostolic work, and a talk by a priest. Members visit the sick in nursing homes and hospitals, welcome new parishioners, visit the home-bound, and take the Pilgrim Virgin statue of Mary to families in the parish. St. Louis has four active praesidiae.
Contact: Carmen Alfaro-Morawski
cmorawski8@hotmail.com
703-768-0842
The members sew quilts for those in need of extra prayers for any reason. We make a quilt and add ties into the quilt. The quilts are placed in front of the school and/or church to be tied by school students and parishioners. Each tied knot represents a prayer said for that quilt recipient. The ministry motto is that it is about the prayers, not the squares. Therefore, we are open to all interested members. The ministry meets the second Tuesday of each month.
Contact: Tricia Reeder
triciareeder@gmail.com
Seeking to promote the mission of Christ, our Savior, with our brothers and sisters of San Isidro Catholic Church in Ayapal, Nicaragua. We support the need to end poverty by establishing and maintaining religious and general education of our sister parish.
Contact: Ignacio Gutierrez
admin@saintlouisparish.org
Society of St. Vincent de Paul welcomes “all who wish to live their faith by loving and serving their neighbor.” Inspired by Gospel values, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, leads women and men to join together by offering person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering in the tradition of its founder, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, and patron, St. Vincent de Paul. Vincentians are united in an international society of charity by their spirit of poverty, humility, and sharing. Organized locally, the Society collaborates with other people of good will in relieving need and addressing its causes, making no distinction in those served because, in them, Vincentians see the face of Christ. For more information about becoming a member of our local conference, please contact the rectory at (703) 765-4421 or leave a message on our SVdP Helpline, (703) 765-0050. For SVdP in the United States, click here.
Contact: Keith Snyder
kasnider@cox.net
Contact: Robin Buchman
robin@svdpalexandria